Dorothea Lange, Documentary Photography, and Twentieth-Century America: Reinventing Self and Nation

ISBN-13: 9780813348599 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 212 str.

Carole Quirke

Opis

Dorothea Lange, Documentary Photography, and 20^th Century America charts the life of Dorothea Lange (1895-1965) whose life was radically altered by the Depression, and whose photography helped transform the nation.

Spis treści

List of figures, Series Editor Introduction, Acknowledgements, Introduction, Chapter One: Dorothea Lange and Turn-of-the-Century America, 1895-1912 Chapter Two: "I Knew It Was Dangerous to Have Something to Fall Back On": Finding the New Woman, Finding Herself, 1912-1918 Chapter Three: Love and Work: Tangled Negotiations, 1918-1929 Chapter Four: "To Grab A Hunk of Lightning:" A Radical Change of Focus, 1929-1934 Chapter Five: "Words Would Not Be Enough," 1934-1935 Chapter Six: "These Things Are a Pressin’ on Us:" Dorothea Lange as Government Photographer, 1935-1936 Chapter Seven: "The Sorriest Place in this Country:" Dorothea Lange and Southern Struggles, 1935-1939 Chapter Eight: "Moving About People" and the Great Plains, 1935-1940 Chapter Nine: "In the Ditches at the End of Beauty": California in the Depression, 1935-1940 Chapter Ten: "Woman Can Change Better’n a Man:" Women in the Great Depression, 1929-1940 Chapter Eleven: "This is What We Did, How Did it Happen, How Could We?" Democracy Under Assault, 1940-1945 Conclusion: "The Last Ditch:" Dorothea Lange and the Persistence of Vision, 1945-1965 Primary Documents: Reading Photography in the Archives, Study Questions, Bibliography, Index

O autorze

Carol Quirke is a professor of American Studies at the State University of New York, Old Westbury, USA. She teaches women’s history, U.S. history, and visual culture. Her previous book Eyes on Labor: News Photography and America’s Working Class (2012) examines the political stakes of news photography for organized labor in America’s midcentury. Her essays appear in American Quarterly, Radical History Review, History Today, and Reviews in American History.